Do Not Be Deceived!
"Do not be deceived, God is not mocked;
for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap."
Galatians 6: 7
One doesn’t have to look far in modern media to find
examples of God, and especially Jesus Christ,
being
made light of; and in some cases, mocked. And while
some say, “It’s all in good fun; no harm, no foul,” is that
a risk worth taking?
God does not seem to take mocking lightly. As the
writer to the Hebrews wrote, “It is a fearful thing to fall
into the hands of the living God” (Hebrews 10:31).
King Belshazzar, the successor to Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon,
learned this the hard way. At a drunken feast, he mocked God by
having the sacred vessels from the temple in Jerusalem, which
Nebuchadnezzar had confiscated decades earlier, brought into
the feast to be used in profane ways.
But in the midst of their mockery of God, a heavenly hand appeared
and wrote words of judgment on the wall. The words prophesied the
end of Babylon, a destiny that occurred that very night when Babylon
was invaded by the Medes and Belshazzar was slain (Daniel 5:30-31).
There's a universal principle at work in our affairs:
“God is not mocked” are words to live by, today
and always, for we will reap what we sow.
"God is not deceived by externals."
C. S. Lewis
